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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

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Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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SO – IL shares facade details of forthcoming Nine Chapel residences in Brooklyn

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SO – IL ’s next NYC residential project is wrapping up for client Tankhouse. Image credit: Jonathan Hokklo “The drama of the building’s exterior is apparent even from far away.

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"The exterior walls will make an excellent canvas for Banksy" says commenter

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JZ found the spaces "pretty intense" and "monkish" and wondered whether the clients would be able to "maintain the purity of the interior as they break it in". Alfred Hitchcock believed that "the interior cell walls just need some padding" and that "the exterior walls make an excellent canvas for Banksy et al".

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Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss

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Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The project shares its name with the iconic French house built by architects Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet in 1932, which famously has walls of glass blocks.

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Inchbald School of Design presents ten architecture and garden design projects

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Dezeen School Shows: an adaptive reuse project that sees a chapel converted into a live-work space is featured in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Inchbald School of Design. Also included is a project that renovates a mews house according to Japanese design principles and a garden informed by traditional English country gardens.

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Billings for residential work remain strong but slower times ahead, suggests AIA Home Design Trends Survey

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The AIA Home Design Trends Survey (Q4) revealed a contraction in the demand for residential design inquiries and design contracts, despite billings for residential projects continuing to increase. Extract from AIA Home Design Trends Survey.

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Young Projects "radically reimagines" traditional barn for home in the Hamptons

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A cluster of wood-clad, gabled volumes form a sculptural home by architectural studio Young Projects that nods to historic Long Island architecture while reimagining the barn typology. Young Projects created a swimming pool The house, which totals 2,600 square feet (242 square metres), consists of six gabled forms, each 24 by 24 feet (7.3

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